> -----Original Message----- > From: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 3:49 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day > > At 11:47 10-03-2008, Bob Proulx wrote: > >What would have been the downside of *not* having a backup MX? The > > Loss of mail.
No. "Possible mail loss" is really the correct term. Just because I have no backup MX, it does not mean I will lose mail.... (Mail loss can, and usually is caused by many more issues than just no backup/secondary MX). > > >mail would have remained in the mailqueue. Comcast, AOL, Yahoo, > >Gmail, corporate servers, private servers, etc. would have retried to > >send the mail to you later. When your main mail relay came online > >they would have retried and delivered it. There would have been NO > >DIFFERENCE at all. You didn't need your backup MX relay to proxy > >relay the mail to you. > > The difference is that you are making assumptions about their retry > strategy. Yes, all are different. In the grand scheme though, who cares? We've had no "backup mx" here for over 5 years, and have lost no mail that I'm aware of... (or rather, no one has complained anyhow?). We've been down once for like 8 hours and lost nothing as far as I could tell. If it were down longer (unlikely with a hot spare ready to go, but besides the point) some stuff would just bounce and the senders would resend it. Life goes on). Regards, jp
